Paper-rolled-pencil cutter.



No. 647,|95. Patent ed. A r. Io, I900. F. MGCUTCHEN & J. J. mossoP.

PAPER ROLLED PENCIL CUTTER. v

(Appliation filed Feb. 23, 1900. (No Model.)

WITNESSES IN VE N 7095 ATTORNEY ll nirrin STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS MOOUTOHEN AND JOHN J. MOSSOP, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PAPER-ROLhED-PENCIL CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 647,195, dated April 10, 1900. Application filed February 23, 1900- Serial No. 6,158. (No model.)

Our invention relates to devices for cutting or sharpening paper-rolled lead-pencils, and has for its object to provide a cutting device adapted to be conveniently held between the forefinger and thumb, whereby each roll or strip of thepaper-rolls of which the pencil.

is composedmay be separatelyand properly and at the same time coveniently cut and the strips removed one at a time to exposethe length of lead point covered thereby.

To these ends our invention consists of the tool hereinafter described, consisting, marily, of a pair of rearwardly-joined members, one of the same operating as a supporting means and the other of them carrying a projecting circular edge, the central portion of the outer edge of each of said members being curved inwardly to enable them to be" held firmly between and appropriately actuated'by the fingers, and also in details of construction of the device, as hereinafter particu larly described and claimed.

In the drawings illustrating our invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the cutting-tool 5 Fig. 2, a top view thereof; Fig. 3, a perspective showing the mode of operation of the device, and Fig. atan elevation of apaper-rolled pencil with one of the strips just cut by the device and ready to be unrolled.

Paper-rolled lead-pencils'have come into extensive use in recent years; buta drawback to them has been the lack of appropriate devices for a separate cutting of the strips. Such pencils are made of separate narrow strips of about a quarter of an inch or less in width wrapped on the central stick of lead in spiral form and the whole covered by a single roll of paper, on which is impressed a longitudinal series of disk-like depressions n to indicate the end of each spiral strip 1' and the place where the cut is to be made to detion.

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tively large chiefly to enable the propercurvar ture to be given to the outer edge if, and said ends 0 have each a central opening cl, through whichan eyelet orother connecting-pin e is passed to hold said members in proper rela We prefer that the connection should be a hinged connection by making the eyelet or pin 6 a pivot-pin, and hence one of said members ais provided with a lug f to limit the movement of. the free or cutting end of the cutting memberu. towardthe other. One of said members I) is given anedge h, which is a straight supporting edge and which is preferably sharpened withan outwardly-inclined shear-like edge, and the other of said members c (which cuts the paper strip on the pencil) is given a projected circular edge m,

which is sharpened, preferably with a knifelike cutting edge, and each of said members along its outer edge is curved inwardly, as at 15, (see Figs. 1 and 3,) so that a'being the upper member the forefinger may rest therein and enable the proper pressure to be brought thereby upon the cutting member, While as to b (the lower member) the said shape conforms to the shape of the supportingfingers in resisting such pressure.

The mode of operation will be readily understood from the description, coupled with the illustration afforded by Fig. 3, it remaining only to add that the removal of the strips 1' from the pencil is done by the circular blade edge m, supported in the device, cutting into the strip represented by the disk depression n on the pencil, whereupon the edge not the strip is readily raised, as seen in Fig. 4, by turning said blade edge m against the same, the strip then being easily removed by the fingers, thereby exposing a new point or end of lead equal to the Width of the strip removed. If, as suggested and preferred, the straight edge h of the lower member I) is made a sharpened edge, it can be conveniently employed as a knife to give a sharper point to the lead end or point, if desired.

Having thus described our invention, What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cutting device of the character described, consisting of two rearWardly-joined members a and b, the extreme free end of the cutting member abeing provided with an inwardly-projecting circular blade or cutting edge m, the opposite member extending beneath the same; substantially as described.

2. A cutting device of the character de scribed consisting of two rearwardly-joined members a and b, the back edge of each of which is curved inwardly, the extreme free 7 end of the cutting member a being provided circular blade edge m, and carrying a lugf 30 adapted to limit the movement of the free ends of the opposite members toward each other; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our signatures this 17th day of February, A. D. 1900.

FRANCIS MOOUTOHEN. JOHN J. MOSSOP.

Witnesses:

WALTER O. PUSEY, II. T. FENTON. 

